The James Randi Educational Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1996 by celebrated social critic and magician James Randi. Through media appearances, public lectures, grassroots organizing, resources for educators, academic scholarships, regional and national events and digital publishing, the JREF promotes critical thinking by reaching out to the public and media with reliable information about paranormal and supernatural ideas so widespread in our society today.

Why join the James Randi Educational Foundation?Support the JREF and help us:

Create a new generation of Amaz!ng critical thinkers

Promote critical thinking through media and public appearances

Actively challenge those who would deceive the public for profit or political gain

Organize regional meetings that bring the critical thinking community together

Maintain vigilance over media organizations that will sacrifice the truth for higher ratings

Your membership permits the important work of the Foundation to continue and expand. Thank you for your most generous support.

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"Every time I have a reason to reach back in time to bring up memories of the John W. Carson story and my relatively peripheral connection with the man, I get teary-eyed. I’m not just one of those ten to fifteen million people who tuned in at night to enjoy the great gift that he offered us. No, I actually got to sit before the cameras in his studio with him twenty-two times over the years. Johnny Carson’s assistance to the JREF has continued through the John W. Carson Foundation." - James Randi